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The 'appropriate technology' explanation of productivity growth differentials: an empirical approach

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Los, Bart
Timmer, Marcel P. (Groningen University)

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This paper aims at giving empirical content to the recent Basu & Weil (1998) theory of growth, in which localized innovation and differences in speeds of capital intensification can yield several patterns of international convergence and divergence. Using data envelopment analysis techniques, a decomposition is presented in which labor productivity growth is decomposed into growth due to localized innovation, creating spillover potential through investment and assimilation of knowledge spillovers. Regression analysis shows that convergence in the 1970s and divergence in the 1980s were mainly driven by processes of creating spillover potential, but that the other two factors also had significant impacts.

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Paper provided by Groningen Growth and Development Centre, University of Groningen in its series GGDC Research Memorandum with number 200361.

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  2. Enflo, Kerstin & Hjertstrand, Per, 2006. "Relative sources of European regional productivity convergence: A bootstrap frontier approach," Working Papers 2006:17, Lund University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
  3. Szirmai, Adam & Van Dijk, Michiel, 2007. "The Micro-Dynamics of Catch Up in Indonesian Paper Manufacturing: An International Comparison of Plant-Level Performance," UNU-MERIT Working Paper Series 010, United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and social Research and training centre on Innovation and Technology. [Downloadable!]
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